Top 20 Universities in the World (According to the QS World University Rankings 2023)
Rank; University; Location;
1; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)link=https://www.mit.edu/; United States;
2; University of Cambridgelink=https://www.cam.ac.uk/; United Kingdom;
3; Stanford Universitylink=https://www.stanford.edu/; United States;
4; University of Oxfordlink=https://www.ox.ac.uk/; United Kingdom;
5; Harvard Universitylink=https://www.harvard.edu/; United States;
6; California Institute of Technology (Caltech)link=https://www.caltech.edu/; United States;
6; Imperial College Londonlink=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/; United Kingdom;
8; UCL (University College London)link=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/; United Kingdom;
9; ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)link=https://ethz.ch/en.html; Switzerland;
10; University of Chicagolink=https://www.uchicago.edu/; United States;
11; National University of Singapore (NUS)link=https://www.nus.edu.sg/; Singapore;
12; Peking Universitylink=https://english.pku.edu.cn/; Mainland China;
13; University of Pennsylvanialink=https://www.upenn.edu/; United States;
14; Tsinghua Universitylink=https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/; Mainland China;
15; University of Edinburghlink=https://www.ed.ac.uk/; United Kingdom;
16; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)link=https://www.epfl.ch/en/; Switzerland;
16; Princeton Universitylink=https://www.princeton.edu/; United States;
18; Yale Universitylink=https://www.yale.edu/; United States;
19; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)link=https://www.ntu.edu.sg/; Singapore;
20; Cornell Universitylink=https://www.cornell.edu/; United States;